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21.

What causes consumer lag and how do you address it?

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What is the difference between Kafka and Apache Pulsar?

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What is Kafka MirrorMaker and its use cases?

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What is Kafka's approach to backward compatibility?

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25.

Explain Kafka's compression and its trade-offs.

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What is the difference between at-rest and in-transit encryption in Kafka?

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27.

How do you handle duplicate messages in Kafka?

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28.

What are Kafka's consistency guarantees?

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29.

What are Kafka transactions and how do they work?

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30.

Explain Kafka's ISR (In-Sync Replica) mechanism.

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31.

How do you tune Kafka for maximum performance?

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32.

Explain Kafka's exactly-once semantics implementation.

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33.

How does Kafka handle network partitions and split-brain scenarios?

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34.

What are some common Kafka anti-patterns to avoid?

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35.

How do you implement event sourcing with Kafka?

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36.

What is the role of the Kafka Controller?

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How do you implement CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) with Kafka?

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